As part of BBC Radio 2's Liverpool Season, Sue Johnston explores the history and impact of the Broadway show tune that has become synonymous with the city, in a Radio 2 documentary.

The radio documentary, which will feature Thomas Lang's version of "You'll Never Walk Alone", is broadcast on Tuesday 10th June 2008, between 2230-2330, on Radio 2, Digital Satellite and on the Radio 2 website. Full details can be found on the Radio 2 website.

Thomas Lang has recorded a version of "You'll Never Walk Alone", which will appear on the "Liverpool - The Number Ones Album", a celebration of Liverpool’s world record for being the city with the highest number of chart topping singles. The album is released on 4th February 2008. You can listen to "You'll Never Walk Alone" in full at Thomas Lang's Myspace page.

Other artists appearing on the "Liverpool - The Number Ones Album" album include Elvis Costello & Amsterdam, China Crisis, The Icicle Works & Deacon Blue.


“The Number One Project” – the largest music based charity event Liverpool has ever seen aims to mark Liverpool’s status as European Capital of Culture for 2008 with a celebration of its world beating 56 number one singles.

They are aiming to raise at least £1 million to distribute among 6 of the city’s leading charities, The Liverpool Echo Sunrise Appeal, The Marina Dalglish Appeal, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Radio City’s Give A Child A Chance, Radio Merseyside Charitable Trust and The Marie Curie Liverpool Hospice Appeal.

The Liverpool Echo has recently produced Sound ’07: a special magazine highlighting the variety of live music, which will be performed throughout Merseyside over the summer period. In addition it also contains news, features and interviews with Liverpool musicians from the past and present.

The good news for fans of Thomas Lang is the inclusion of a new track on the cover mounted CD. ‘The Masquerade is Over’ has become an audience favourite at his live shows and represents the first recording from Tom for some time. He originally encountered the song when a friend requested that he performed it at their wedding and it appears here in an acoustic form with only a piano and saxophone as accompaniment.

The magazine is available from newsagents across Merseyside for only £4.99 (with £1 donated to the Anthony Walker Appeal) or via the www.merseyshop.com.
[Thanks to Andrew Blanchard for this information]

Various Thomas Lang performances have been added to Youtube by your Lang webmaster! "The Happy Man" (promo video & daytime TV appearance), "Fingers & Thumbs" ("Wired"), "I Will" & "Misunderstood" (both from Jools Holland's "The Happening"), an acoustic version of "I Will" with John Murphy, two interviews (from 1987 and the early 1990's) plus a version of "Sons Of" from the early 1990's. More videos will be added soon. You can view the videos on the Thomas Lang Youtube playlist.

If you have any Thomas Lang video performances, please get in touch via kinski2007@gmail.com.

Thomas Lang returned to the recording studio in Liverpool at the end of October 2006, and has started recording his new songs. The first tracks to be recorded were "Scared" & "I Believe".

A big thanks to everyone who came to the Jazz gig at the Hope Street Hotel on Sunday (17th September 2006), a nice time was had by all I think.

I have just recorded a song with Dave Hughes for a movie due out next year called “In Your Dreams”. The song is called “I Will Be There”, and the film stars Dexter Fletcher, Susan George and Linda Hamilton (of The Terminator movies).

Also congratulations to John Murphy who has just had his second child, Molly, out in LA.

Thomas Lang 21st September 2006

Local businessmen Gary Millar, Steve Macfarlane and Musician Thomas Lang have saved Parr Street Studios from closure and uncertainty. Following months of negotiations, contracts were signed and exchanged at 4.45pm Friday 14th July afternoon. The complex will remain open, be expanded and be refurbished over the next 2 years.

The new owners are Parr Street Studios Limited owned by Gary Millar, Steve Macfarlane and Thomas Lang.

Thanks must go out to everyone who has played a valuable supporting role. In particular, to Councilors Joe Anderson and Steve Munby, Mike Taylor CEO of Business Liverpool and all his colleagues, Riverside MP Louise Elman, Warren Bradley, Mike Storey, The Culture Company, friends of Parr Street and 3345, Radio Merseyside, Radio City 96.7, The Liverpool Echo and Daily Post, BBC News, Liverpool Vision, Lee Heaven at Canter Levin & Berg Solicitors, Barclays Bank and all the tenants of Parr Street Studios.

Parr Street Studios is the UK’s second largest recording studios, is a Hotel, has offices for rental to the creative community and houses the world famous 3345 Private Members Club. Big plans await its expansion and its new anchor tenants so watch this space.

Best wishes, Thomas Lang

Director, Parr Street Studios Ltd
Managing Director, 3345 Ltd
Chairman, Sense of Sound
Director, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall & Events Ltd
Chairman, PR committee of Sirolli Liverpool City Centre
Patron, Sahir House
Patron, for the Outsiders film Festival

Thomas Lang now has a Myspace page, that includes four streamed tracks from The Lost Letter Z album. Please join as a friend on Thomas' Myspace page and spread the word about the music. Once new music is recorded, this is where you will be able to hear previews.

UNRELEASED LANG TRACKS... Ian Ritchie has made available an unreleased Thomas Lang track on his website. The track is called "I Warned You" and comes from the late 1980's. There is also an alternative, early version of "Away From You" for download. Both tracks can be downloaded from Ian Ritchie's website. Many thanks to John Jackson for spotting this!

LANG ON LAST.FM... Last.FM is a free online community that also gives you an online (streamed) radio station. I have set up a Thomas Lang group at last.FM, so feel free to visit the Thomas Lang page at Last.FM and join the group, and join in the discussion (when member numbers grow). You can see what Thomas Lang tracks are the most popular amongst Last.FM users, and do the same with your other favourite artists.

The Thomas Lang group can be found here.

You get your own online music profile that you can fill up with lists of the music you like. This information is used to create a personal radio station (which is streamed to your computer) and to find users who are similar to you. Last.fm can even play you new artists and songs you might like. It's addictive, it's growing, it's free, it's music.

Last.FM works by you installing a plug-in on itunes or whatever you use to play your music on your computer. Last.FM then loads details of what you have played onto your Last.FM profile page once you have signed up. The songs you play then show as personal charts on your online profile page - by track, artist, album etc. Other Last.FM users can see what you have played, leave messages, start discussions etc.

John Uriel, who many of you know from his work on the "Versions" album, and who wrote songs with Thomas in the late 90's, passed away recently.

"I would like to send my condolences to John's family and his partner Jane, as John passed away this month in Hong Kong aged 39. The songs we wrote together are very special to me and the memories surrounding the writing of them will always be with me.

Good night and God bless my old friend."

Thomas Lang April 2005

The Thomas Lang album 'Scallywag Jaz and More - The Best Of Thomas Lang' is available to download from i-Tunes Europe. Available on the UK, French & German versions of i-Tunes, the album can be downloaded in full (for £7.99) or you can purchase individual tracks for 79p per track.

I would just like to say a BIG thank you to everyone who came along to the gigs. THANK YOU ALL.
It was great to see so many people singing along and enjoying themselves.

I also hope that you all like the new songs, as I am now planning to get back into the studio over the next couple of months and get a new album together. If not an album then maybe an EP, what say you all?

Once again thanks, it melted my heart to see that you gave me so much support after such a long time in the back seat of my mind....

Big love.
Tom x

Thomas Lang at the Academy, Liverpool

Thomas Lang Manchester article

The songs performed were:	Are You Happy Now?, Scared (first ever live performance),
If Loving You Is Wrong, Break My Back, The Happy Man, Dry, I Believe (first ever live performance) & Use Me.

Thomas Lang played a short acoustic set as part of a charity concert at Liverpool's Life Cafe on November 2nd 2000.  'Live In The Round' also featured appearances from Shack , Space , Ian McNabb, Angie Brown, Chloe Poems, Jennifer John, Tina O'Brien, Rapataka and special guest DJs.

Thomas played 4 songs (the first 2 acoustic), accompanied by a percussionist & John Murphy on guitar. The set opened with Injury, followed by The Happy Man ("you can sing along to this one").  At one point mid-song, Tom opened his eyes and said "hello" as if he suddenly realised he was on stage, not alone.  One of those getting lost in the song moments.

John left the stage, and Thomas was joined by Jennifer Johns on backing vocals (whom he manages) for a DAT + percussion version of Love TKO , finishing with Use Me (the Japanese "Editions" single mix).